It’s no fun to lose power for hours or days, especially if you end up having to throw out the food in your fridge. If you know a big storm is coming, you can keep food safe longer by filling your freezer with jugs of water.
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Windows/Mac: Installing and setting up a vanilla version of the Raspberry Pi’s main operating system, Raspbian, is easy enough . If you want to do more with it, like set up custom software to run on boot, or connect to a Wi-Fi network, it’s a bit of a pain. PiBakery simplifies all that dramatically.
Pour one out for your old pitcher.
Dumplings, ravioli, and gnocchi are all delicious, starchy jewels of wonder that don’t need a lot of futzing to make them sing, but there is one extra step I encourage you to take when preparing them, and that step is browning.
Mac: If you need to keep your computer awake until certain apps or processes are finished running and you don’t trust the built-in energy management settings, you can use the boldly named Amphetamine 3.0 to keep your Mac on under whatever circumstances you require.
